RIP Phil the Greek
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@mn5 said in RIP Phil the Greek:
He’s got his own death thread on the fern.
You sense he would have appreciated the honour....
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Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
Watching a program on Phil and hearing the story about his mother and how she sheltered Jews from the Nazis at some risk to her life. Not something they shouted about.
Kinda puts Megan's current travails in perspective.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
Of course the Herald gets straight to the most important thing. What do Harry and Meghan think?
Watching a program on Phil and hearing the story about his mother and how she sheltered Jews from the Nazis at some risk to her life. Not something they shouted about.
Kinda puts Megan's current travails in perspective.
Imagine your mother in law referring to you as The Hun. Makes you want to run away to California....
Sounds like a funny guy, kept it real on more than one occasion much to some people's horror
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@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger. -
@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl.
Yeah, me to. I wasn't having a crack. In fact he really should have had a formal message from her previously. How long do you have to be married to hear from Liz?
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Fascinating article. You wonder if his comments on how many pakeha viewed maori pretty much chimed with what quite a few maori thought at the time. A few of my maori friends saw Pakeha as generally being anti-discrimination but not quite understanding issues from a maori perspective.
Been interesting here in the UK to hear many black and Asian leaders praise him - even for his humour and gaffes. They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.
Yep. He didn't seem to be discriminatory, he could be rude or insulting to everyone universally (if they chose to take the humour that way). I liked that.
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@victor-meldrew said in RIP 2021:
They seemed to see him as someone who just took the the piss out of anyone.
Yep. He didn't seem to be discriminatory, he could be rude or insulting to everyone universally (if they chose to take the humour that way). I liked that.
People these days can't seem to differentiate between saying racist things just coz, and actually discriminating based on race
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@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger.Pah. No breakfast?
Nah, cool story bro. Really cool actually. 👍
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@siam said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@crucial said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@snowy said in RIP Phil the Greek:
One more year and he would have got a message from his wife.
Wonder what that would have been?Actually feel quite sorry for the old girl. She really did love him.
A couple of years ago the son and his partner were doing the Windsor Castle walkthrough while we were in the pub. ('Two Brewers' if you are looking for a good one there) and while others in their group went rushing from item to item they stopped to just look out a window onto a courtyard. A door opened and out came Lizzie with a couple of dogs, a car pulls up and out hops Phil. She has a big smile and goes and gives him a hug. They luckily witnessed a totally real and candid moment between the two.
My own little experience was more formal but we got an invite to one of the garden parties at the big London house and then got selected to meet the old girl as she wandered through the garden. Anyway it is all quite formal and you get introduced etc. The wife and I use different surnames and because of a quirk in the way it was set up ended up standing on either side of a couple of friends. Anyway she has her little chat along the line to the others. Work talk. Then gets to me. 'and what brings you here Crucial?'. I pointed to the wife and said 'I'm just here as support and logistics for her'. She actually laughed and said 'Oh, I have one of those as well'.
After she moved on to the next group and we were released we had so many people come up and asked how we made her smile and laugh. The 'joke' was weak so I can only assume it was thinking about the silly old bugger.Pah. No breakfast?
Nah, cool story bro. Really cool actually. 👍
Just tea and cake. Quite nice cake actually.
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@taniwharugby said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@snowy I'd argue many of that generation are more blunt/rude, alot without really meaning to be.
That wouldn't be an arguement, that would be an agreement.
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@sparky said in RIP Phil the Greek:
@snowy Two months more and he would have turned 100 on June 10th.
Yeah but you get a mention from her for being married for long enough too, hence the comment.
60th anniversary it seems, so Phil had already had a well done from her.
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I kind of hate the disrespect being shown Phil on social media (how he looked at the end included, far out he's sick and 99,cut him some slack) he's a WW2 vet who had a very tough childhood then married the most famous woman in the world. Yes he could be blunt, but he did some good environmental shit long before the woke folk were even thinking about it, and his DoE award helped lots of kids.
Interesting thing I learned: Charles holds onto the DoE title til he becomes king, then Edward and Sophie become Duke and Duchess. -
@mokey said in RIP Phil the Greek:
I kind of hate the disrespect being shown Phil on social media (how he looked at the end included, far out he's sick and 99,cut him some slack) he's a WW2 vet who had a very tough childhood then married the most famous woman in the world. Yes he could be blunt, but he did some good environmental shit long before the woke folk were even thinking about it, and his DoE award helped lots of kids.
Interesting thing I learned: Charles holds onto the DoE title til he becomes king, then Edward and Sophie become Duke and Duchess.It’s just the way of the world, no matter how decent a person might be to some they’re always gonna be ripe for parody for others.
Lots of people don’t like the Royals and what they stand for, that certainly doesn’t help matters. Probably best you don’t check out the Memes thread.
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@jc I absorbed a lot of coverage of this yesterday and this AM.
Nothing at all about the Californians until a small snippet that Harry is likely to attend on his own. UK press giving them “what they want” with zero coverage.
Nz herald though .... this morning lead was around the cold message they posted! Herald has properly drunk the kool aid.
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@mokey said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Yes he could be blunt, but he did some good environmental shit long before the woke folk were even thinking about it, and his DoE award helped lots of kids.
That's probably what's pissing them off - he actually got shit done rather than wanking on about it on Twitter.